Produced in association with the SomaCow Media Network (see SomaCow.net), Prime Time Geek (PTG) is a weekly program broadcast live via Ustream.tv and later made available as a podcast on iTunes and right here at this site. Each week, PTG brings you news, opinions, and insights covering comic books, movies, TV, video games, and all else exciting in the realm of Geekdom.
PTG Episode 89 is brought to you by Super Bowl XLIV. Oh, how I wish that were really true and that the NFL had paid to sponsor this particular episode. I don’t think I’d have to work for at least a year with the kind of money the league probably is willing to pay to advertise anywhere. Anyway, it is Super Bowl Sunday, and shortly after posting this episode I’ll be off to partake in that most American of traditions, the Super Bowl party, where folks gather in one another’s homes, consume mass quantities of food and drink, and plop down in front of (hopefully) a big-screen TV either to actually watch the game or watch all the pre-game and halftime performances and the commercials. This year’s batch of commercials should be chock-full of good movie trailers for films coming this summer, and you can bet PTG will be keeping score on which were the best and the worst of the movie trailers and the commercials in general. Don’t forget: next week we welcome back “The Man” from Slacker and the Man, and no doubt he’ll have opinions to share on the Super Bowl commercials, as well. Should be a great way to kick off (pardon the pun) next week’s show, so don’t miss it.
For now, in this episode we cover Apple’s big announcement about the upcoming iPad and how people in the comic book industry (well, some people, at any rate) believe it might just be a game-changer. Plus, thoughts on how FOX’s new action/thriller series Human Target stacks up against one of their most popular and enduring entries in the genre, 24, and reviews of two Marvel books from last week, New Avengers #61 and Thor #606. Enjoy!
PTG Episode 88 is brought to you by Talk Nerdy Show. If you listened to Episode 87 and you enjoyed our interview with Carin and Ryan from the new Talk Nerdy Show, whose debut webcast will be available this Sunday, February 7th over at talknerdyshow.com, then you’re in for a treat. I’m pleased to announce that we’ll have Carin and Ryan in studio for the February 20th broadcast of PTG, so they can talk about reaction to the webcast going up this weekend and promote webcast number two, which they will make available on the web the next day. I’ll provide you with more reminders as the date gets closer, but for now it’s safe to say I’m excited to have the opportunity to hang out with them again, and this time we’ll have microphones and headphones for both of them!
Also coming up in the month of February, “The Man” from Slacker and the Man will be making his return to the show on February 13th, just in time to help me review “The Wolfman“, which debuts in theaters on the 12th. That night we also hope to get Moshi from the Wolf Pack Elite on the phone to talk about this year’s WPE MegaCon after-party as well as other Wolf Pack Elite goings-on, so stay tuned for more details on that!
For now, please enjoy Episode 88–in it I cover Dollhouse’s bittersweet swansong, Smallville’s first new episode of 2010, entitled “Disciple”, and this past week’s Blackest Night tie-ins, including The Atom and Hawkman #46 and the terrifying return of Parallax in Green Lantern #50. (Well, it terrified me, anyway.)
PTG Episode 87 is brought to you once again by Heroes Landing and their inaugural Geek Singles Night event. Our second hour that night features our interview with Carin and Ryan from Talk Nerdy Show, who share some insights into what audiences and visitors to their website can expect to find when their first webcast becomes available on February 7th. It’s a fun chat that I’m sure you’ll enjoy–I know I enjoyed talking to them and we’re working on bringing them back in a few weeks to talk again, so stay tuned. Also in this episode, we review two of Marvel’s Siege tie-ins from that week, Dark Avengers #13 and Dark Wolverine #82, and we wrap the hour by bringing back Stu Cohen to give his thoughts on how the evening went as a whole, during which he declared himself and co-owner Todd Merrick “digital pimps.” Careful what you aspire to, Stu–never forget, “ya know it’s hard out there for a pimp (yeah, yeah)…”
PTG Episode 86 is brought to you by Heroes Landing. Many thanks again to Stu and Todd for inviting us to be a part of their first-ever Geek Singles Night. It was a great night all around, and here (finally) is the podcast of the first hour of show we broadcast from there. Due to equipment limitations that night, we didn’t have access to our effects or sounders during the live show, so anyone who caught the live broadcast and listens to this podcast should immediately notice a difference. It’s a fun hour featuring interviews, our review of Legion, and a rundown of that week’s Blackest Night tie-in issues, including Green Lantern Corps #44 and Blackest Night: The Flash #2. Hope you enjoy, and watch for the second hour to uploaded tomorrow evening!
PTG Episode 85 is brought to you by brevity, as in, no time for a long blog post with this one. Here’s the second “hour” (originally clocked at 1:27, now down to about 1:18) of our 1-16-2010 broadcast, featuring special guest co-host “The Man” from Slacker and the Man. Lots to enjoy here, but what I’m particularly proud of is the sounder that starts off the episode, which you folks who heard this live have actually NOT heard yet. (HINT: it relates directly to the sign The Man held up in front of the webcam each time Winamp crapped out on me during the live broadcast!). Enjoy!
PTG Episode 84 is brought to you almost a week late. Again, apologies for the lateness. In the coming weeks you may see me scaling back what goes into these posts. Episodes will still be edited and have all the bells and whistles, but episode images may be simpler or may be removed all together, and blog posts significantly shorter. Not what I want at all, but at this point perhaps necessary to keep things rolling on a timely basis.
In this episode, The Man from “Slacker and the Man” regales us with tales of late night Downtown Orlando adventures among the homeless, as well as helping me break down “The Book of Eli” and that week’s Blackest Night tie-ins from DC, Catwoman #83 and The Power of Shazam #48, both of which are “dead” titles that have been “revived” for one issue as part of the Blackest Night event. Good stuff in each, so check them out! Enjoy the episode, and the second hour WILL be posted in the coming days!
Here’s the video from last Saturday’s 1st hour, featuring special guest co-host “The Man” from Slacker and the Man, along with LOTS of technical glitches. Enjoy!
PTG Episode 83 is brought to you by … well, by tardiness. Tardiness is something generally I have lots of patience for, considering how often I’m guilty of it. But when it comes to getting episodes of PTG uploaded and available for you guys to listen to at the very LEAST before the next show airs … well, I don’t give myself a whole lot of slack. Which is why I hereby apologize to you, our fans, for getting this episode out to you so late. The news headlines in this episode are so old and stale they might as well have been from 2009, and the reviews of Dollhouse and Marvel Comics‘ initial issues of Siege and Siege: Embedded so out of date that they don’t even need spoiler warnings at this point. But other than THAT, it’s still a pretty good hour and I hope you enjoy it.
In all seriousness, lots of changes for me personally are resulting in having to change the routine in which I get these podcasts available to you. Rest assured, I’ll be making every effort to get stuff out in a more timely manner from here on out. At the very least, you’ll be getting content from this past weekend on time, because they’re very good (and somewhat longer than usual) episodes thanks to the presence of “The Man” from Slacker and the Man in studio for the live broadcast. Check back later in the week to catch those, both in raw form (w/ video) and in podcast form.
PTG Episode 82 is brought to you by Pirate Rap. Specifically, we want to direct your attention to those guys with the hooks you see in the image above, Captain Dan and the Scurvy Crew, who along with Marc with a C, Emergency Pizza Party, Krondor Krew, and Sci-Fried rocked Club 57 West back on January 2nd for New Year’s Geek. We spend some time in this episode reporting on those proceedings and what we witnessed (while we were lucid, at any rate), and during the broadcast I mentioned that we’d be posting links to where you could download Captain Dan and the Scurvy Crew’s stuff. Well, you can find them on MySpace by clicking HERE and also you can preview their tracks on iLike by clicking HERE. Do beware though, me hearties: Explicit lyrics ahoy!
(Also, apologies to Emergency Pizza Party for not mentioning them during the broadcast–I missed their portion of the show, plus quite a bit of the night is a blur at this point …)
Gonna keep this blog entry short–also in this episode we review Daybreakers, the new vampirism-takes-over-the-world movie in theaters starring Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, and Sam Neill, and spotlight two great DC Comics books from last week: Blackest Night: Wonder Woman #2 by Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott and Superman: World of New Krypton #11 by Rucka, James Robinson, and Pete Woods. Hope you enjoy, and don’t forget, on this week’s show we’re happy to welcome “the man” pictured with me below, The Man from Slacker and the Man as special guest co-host for both hours! Should be a GREAT show, so be there Saturday night to catch it live!
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